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Executive Sales Planning Sessions (ESPS®)

During the Executive Sales Planning Sessions (ESPS®), you’ll schedule private, one-on-one business meetings with the partners who are most important to your business strategy. It’s not as rushed as speed-dating, but the principles are similar, allowing you to meet with several people in one day, without having to travel to multiple destinations. 

The NFDA ESPS® appointments will be held in a ballroom this year instead of private suites. Each host will have a 6-foot table, chairs, and a sign with assigned table number. This format allows for more appointments over the two days and less time traveling from room to room.

How ESPS works: 

  • NFDA Associate and Service Provider members who want to set up private appointments register as hosts.
  • Registered meeting attendees book appointments in advance with the hosts of their choice by using our scheduling app.
  • The schedule can accommodate up to 18 appointments.

Designed to facilitate executive-level interchange between trading partners, ESPS gives you the greatest amount of visibility and provides scheduling flexibility with the most companies in a single location. 

ESPS Hosts: 

  • Companies that wish to be available for ESPS appointments are required to pay the ESPS host fee.
  • Only NFDA members are eligible to be ESPS hosts.
  • The ESPS host fee is in addition to the individual registration fees for your personnel who will attend the meeting and/or host appointments.

NFDA members will be able to make appointments starting April 11. Non-members can make appointments starting May 9. 

Click here to see list of registered ESPS hosts. 

ESPS Appointment Scheduler
Primary contacts for each ESPS host company and all ESPS distributor attendees will be given access to the appointment scheduler. Additional hosts, guests, and anyone not attending the ESPS portion of the meeting will not have access.

When a host company or distributor attendee is registered, an email will be sent with an access link to the scheduler.